Young Norwegian Car Enthusiast Challenge(reviews published)

[VicVictory]

WOO! Pretty much dead average in absolutely everything!

[stensen]

hmm so far im the only one that posted my car...

i think that everyone posting the stats of her car takes away some of the excitement about the reviews. i will however say that three of the numbers mentioned by puffster belong to my car.

[Puffster]

hmm so far im the only one that posted my car...

i think that everyone posting the stats of her car takes away some of the excitement about the reviews. i will however say that three of the numbers mentioned by puffster belong to my car.

This is the only reason I haven't posted the spreadsheet yet, got all the calculations done (or close to all), so got a pretty good idea about how it will spread out. Just trying to keep some suspense.
I can say this, everyone beat the becnhmark car around Green Hell, altho one was VERY close. Benchmark time was 11.12.55, the spread from participants were 8.49.65 to 11.12.27 with an average of 9.58.00

[stensen]

what i am really looking forward to see is the fuel economy of the engines and the respecitve cars. i think that people tend to forget that no matter how fuel efficient you engine is, it still needs to move the weight of the car.

[Sebesseg]

I can say this, everyone beat the becnhmark car around Green Hell, altho one was VERY close. Benchmark time was 11.12.55, the spread from participants were 8.49.65 to 11.12.27 with an average of 9.58.00

My car is almost literally spot on the average green hell time, cool. I was hoping for better than average, but I went for more fuel economy than taking a larger HP penalty and getting the performance (also probably a lil bit heavy).

For the curious, I have ~1.8L (don't recall if I4 or 6 honestly) 166HP and a fuel econ of 37 US-mpg (15.7km/L)... so basically I unintentionally built an off-road ready Celica (a realization I came to yesterday)

[DeusExMackia]

Is it bad that I didn't do anything to try and improve my Green Hell lap time?

[stensen]

I can say this, everyone beat the becnhmark car around Green Hell, altho one was VERY close. Benchmark time was 11.12.55, the spread from participants were 8.49.65 to 11.12.27 with an average of 9.58.00

My car is almost literally spot on the average green hell time, cool. I was hoping for better than average, but I went for more fuel economy than taking a larger HP penalty and getting the performance (also probably a lil bit heavy).

For the curious, I have ~1.8L (don't recall if I4 or 6 honestly) 166HP and a fuel econ of 37 US-mpg (15.7km/L)... so basically I unintentionally built an off-road ready Celica (a realization I came to yesterday)

which makes the performance pretty much optimal it seems.

Is it bad that I didn't do anything to try and improve my Green Hell lap time?

not if it does it below 9:57:55

[thecarlover]

Sweet, above average for Green Hell time as well

But not by much like most other stats.

[koolkei]

Is it bad that I didn't do anything to try and improve my Green Hell lap time?

not really....
my car is doing 10:32.16...... and i thought i would be at the end of the pack.....
but i know there's a guy with 11:27.27.
that made me feel better (sorry:P)

but honestly. i really didn't think that mine would be so underpowered
going by the challenge name, i thought he meant pure sporty car, but then i read the scored criteria.
i thought it means a useful and somewhat practical and economical daily driver that COULD feel and be sporty when needed. that's why i went with such a low power.

[strop]

You probably did build the car that one would be most likely to buy in real world terms. Many of us decided to see if we could make more convincing alternatives.

Also, I suspect my car isn't the fastest around Green Hell.

Though I also suspect that it'll have significantly better off-roading capability than the one that is. Unless I was beaten by the 320hp car. Then I'm not so sure.

[07CobaltGirl]

Is it bad that I didn't do anything to try and improve my Green Hell lap time?

not really....
my car is doing 10:32.16...... and i thought i would be at the end of the pack.....
but i know there's a guy with 11:27.27.
that made me feel better (sorry:P)

but honestly. i really didn't think that mine would be so underpowered
going by the challenge name, i thought he meant pure sporty car, but then i read the scored criteria.
i thought it means a useful and somewhat practical and economical daily driver that COULD feel and be sporty when needed. that's why i went with such a low power.

It is all of those things!

You probably did build the car that one would be most likely to buy in real world terms. Many of us decided to see if we could make more convincing alternatives.

Also, I suspect my car isn't the fastest around Green Hell.

Though I also suspect that it'll have significantly better off-roading capability than the one that is. Unless I was beaten by the 320hp car. Then I'm not so sure.

Who else could you have been beaten by?

[Vri404]

So, have I just gained a shit load of bonus points over others. Because of the 4* No. of seats bonus points rule. I have 9 seats, so 4*9 bonus points.

Uh... That may be my only redeeming point.

[strop]

Somebody whose car didn't make as much power as that, but also used double-wishbone suspension, lighter construction and none of the off-road diff/suspension/skidtray options, perhaps. Would make for a much weight-efficient car with better road handling!

[07CobaltGirl]

lol! I can tell you it wasn't either of my cars.

[VicVictory]

I never tested mine on Green Hell (or ANY track for that matter, because I didn't care). So I'm guessing I'm the laggard. 115-ish HP minivan. Ohh yeah... rockin!